Curso de espanol de los negocios dividido en tres niveles de aprendizaje: inicial (A1-A2); intermedio (B1-B2); superior (B2-C1). Fruto de la actividad... docente en HEC Paris, prestigiosa escuela de negocios. Dirigido a estudiantes; profesionales que necesitan aprender espanol en un ambito empresarial; comercial. Contenidos con una clara orientacion practica. Aporta novedades para el aprendizaje del espanol de los negocios: resolucion de tareas; casos practicos. Informacion actualizada; autentica de todo el ambito hispano. Ofrece una serie de actividades comunicativas que se complementan con el uso de Internet. El cuaderno de ejercicios propone casos practicos extra. Three Spanish learning courses for professional relationships and the business world. Updated information from institutions of Hispanic world. Constant use of internet resources. Spanish course for students and professionals who need to learn business and commercial Spanish. Students will learn concepts in an active enterprise environment. This book follows a practical approach and its objective is to be useful as a learning and communicative tool. Al dia encourages the Internet use. Al dia is a course at three levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced. Each level includes a Student's Book + CD, a Workbook and a Teacher's Book. Activities and exercises have been tested by HEC Paris: a prestigious Management School. All intermediate materials will be available at the end of 2007.

Curso de espanol de los negocios dividido en tres niveles de aprendizaje: inicial (A1-A2); intermedio (B1-B2); superior (B2-C1). Fruto de la actividad... docente en HEC Paris, prestigiosa escuela de negocios. Dirigido a estudiantes; profesionales que necesitan aprender espanol en un ambito empresarial; comercial. Contenidos con una clara orientacion practica. Aporta novedades para el aprendizaje del espanol de los negocios: resolucion de tareas; casos practicos. Informacion actualizada; autentica de todo el ambito hispano. Ofrece una serie de actividades comunicativas que se complementan con el uso de Internet. El cuaderno de ejercicios propone casos practicos extra. Workbook. It contains a CD with listening activities. The transcripts are included at the back. This book is organized into ten lessons, divided into two sections: Analicemos y practiquemos, and Creemos y negociemos. This Workbook provides many activities to practice written and oral comprehension and expression.

Curso de espanol de los negocios dividido en tres niveles de aprendizaje: inicial (A1-A2); intermedio (B1-B2); superior (B2-C1). Fruto de la actividad... docente en HEC Paris, prestigiosa escuela de negocios. Dirigido a estudiantes; profesionales que necesitan aprender espanol en un ambito empresarial; comercial. Contenidos con una clara orientacion practica. Aporta novedades para el aprendizaje del espanol de los negocios: resolucion de tareas; casos practicos. Informacion actualizada; autentica de todo el ambito hispano. Ofrece una serie de actividades comunicativas que se complementan con el uso de Internet. El cuaderno de ejercicios propone casos practicos extra. Spanish course for students and professionals who need to learn business and commercial Spanish. Students will learn concepts in an active enterprise environment. This book follows a practical approach and its objective is to be useful as a learning and communicative tool. Al dia encourages the Internet use. Al dia is a course at three levels: beginner, intermediate and advanced. Each level includes a Student's Book + CD, a Workbook and a Teacher's Book. Activities and exercises have been tested by HEC Paris: a prestigious Management School. All intermediate materials will be available at the end of 2007.

This biography of Aldo Leopold follows him from his childhood as a precocious naturalist to his profoundly influential role in the development of... conservation and modern environmentalism in the United States.

If the world of leadership is the world of action, why does being reflective matter? Why take time out? Why explore the inner world of thought and... feeling, the quieter outer processes of dialogue and conversation? This guidebook provides answers to those questions. And it offers intriguing, refreshing and satisfying ways to deepen our leadership capacities through reflection. It is a pocket resource for those who lead by title as well as those who simply make the world a better place by their example. An aid to leaders who are on the run, it is particularly meant for those weary souls who need to find a breathing space in their busy lives in order to be more powerful in service to what matters most to them. It reflects the author's words from her poem Fire: What makes a fire burn is space between the logs, a breathing space…

A Leadership Guide for Volunteer Fire Departments, Fourth Edition updates the resource previously known as Recruiting, Training, and Maintaining... Volunteer Fire Fighters, Third Edition. This must have resource examines the challenges of providing volunteer fire protection in modern day America. Readers are guided through a process of self-assessment and planning using case studies and activity worksheets. Skills and strategies are developed, yielding practical assistance to those charged with leading a volunteer fire department. With the Fourth Edition, you will learn to: Develop a strategic plan for your department; Develop goals and objectives for success; Recruit and retain quality volunteers Determine the need for, screen, and train volunteers; Use proven motivators and rewards to help your volunteers succeed Communicate with and lead volunteers effectively; Recognize organizational warning signs and what to do when problems arise

In this provocative book, leadership experts and authors of the best-selling The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner take on a unique... challenge and explore the question of leadership and legacy. Kouzes and Posner examine in twenty-two chapters the critical questions all leaders must ask themselves in order to leave a lasting impact. These powerful essays are grouped into four categories: Significance, Relationships, Aspirations, and Courage. In each essay the authors consider a thorny and often ambiguous issue with which today’s leaders must grapple issues—such as how leaders serve and sacrifice, why leaders need loving critics, why leaders should want to be liked, why leaders can't take trust for granted, why it’s not just the leader’s vision, why failure is always an option, why it takes courage to “make a life,” how to liberate the leader in everyone, and ultimately, how the legacy you leave is the life you lead.

Allan Rich's new book, A Leap from the Method, is an entertaining must read for anyone in the arts, especially actors."  - Larry King...  ''A very clear and readable introduction to the nuts and bolts of acting and I think a really down-to-earth look at the art.''  - Robert Redford  ''Allan Rich has found a way to put into words the insights and techniques that have made him such a fine and interesting actor.''  - Alan Alda   ''The book is a wonderful guide to an actor building a mind.  Simple yet very complete.''  -  Jamie Lee Curtis  ''I now understand what makes [Rich] the great actor that he is.  He transcends technique, re-digesting and transforming life experience, knowledge and wisdom into a pool of resources from which the actor can draw.''  - Fran Drescher  ''Allan introduced me to the craft of acting.  He inspired, educated and encouraged.  I shall be forever grateful.''  - Rene Russo

Women brewed and sold most of the ale consumed in medieval England, but after 1350, men slowly took over the trade. By 1600, most brewers in London were... male, and men also dominated the trade in many towns and villages. This book asks how, when, and why brewing ceased to be women's work and instead became a job for men. Employing a wide variety of sources and methods, Bennett vividly describes how brewsters (that is, female brewers) gradually left the trade. She also offers a compelling account of the endurance of patriarchy during this time of dramatic change.

Engage your students in French language and culture through film! This versatile booklet includes seven court-metrage-style films, several award... winning, with suggested pre-, during and post-viewing activities. The Annotated Instructor's Edition includes teaching suggestions, an answer key and a complete video script. This supplement can be packaged with any intermediate and post-intermediate French publication.

In A Legacy of Leadership, top scholars and journalists create a new framework for understanding the contributions governors have made to defining... democracy and shaping American history.Structured chronologically, A Legacy of Leadership places governors in contrast and comparison with one another as well as within the context of their times to show how a century of dramatic developments—war and peace, depression and prosperity—led governors to rethink and expand their positions of leadership. The nine chapters of compelling new scholarship presented here connect the experiences of dynamic individual governors and the evolution of the gubernatorial office to the broader challenges the United States has faced throughout the turbulent twentieth century. Taken together, they demonstrate how interstate cooperation became essential as governors increasingly embraced national and international perspectives to promote their own states' competitiveness.Published for the centennial of the National Governors Association, A Legacy of Leadership is an eloquent demonstration of how, to a great extent, we live in a country that governors created.

In this gripping social history of South Africa, award-winning journalist Mark Gevisser follows the family of former South African President Thabo Mbeki... to make sense of his legacy and understand the future of the country under new President Jacob Zuma. With unparalleled access to Mbeki and Zuma, as well as other key players in the ANC, Gevisser presents an intimate yet accessible account of South Africa’s past, present and future. With his stunning account of the Mbeki family’s history as a backdrop, Gevisser fleshes out a monumental period in world history that will continue to shape African politics for years to come.

Protect your rights -- protect your relationship!Laws affecting LGBT couples are changing rapidly, and while it's an exciting time for all gay and... lesbian partners, keeping up with the myriad ways the shifting legal landscape touches your family life can be daunting. Now more than ever, it's important that you take the proper legal steps to define and protect your relationship in the eyes of the law. If you don't, you run the risk of being shut out of each other's lives -- and the lives of children you co-parent -- in times of medical, financial or personal crisis.Fortunately, this practical guide is updated with the latest legal information and legislation that will help you and your same-sex partner protect and exercise your rights, and make sound decisions as a couple.A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples covers these important subjects, and many more:. making practical decisions about living together. planning for medical emergencies -- making medical decisions for one another and taking care of each other's finances when one partner is incapacitated. domestic partner benefits and how to obtain them. buying property together. providing for each other upon death. practical and legal aspects of having and raising children. marriage laws for all 50 statesThe updated edition of A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples is updated to provide the latest information on same-sex marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships in the U.S., Canada and around the world, as well as all the recent developments in same-sex partnership law. Plus, create essential legal documents using the step-by-step instructions included.--Download forms for book at nolo.com